Someone else, either here on this board or on some other site in the conlanging community, had a similar story.zee wrote:I started to create a ciper with one of my friends on holiday once in Wales (2009), thinking it was an actual language!eldin raigmore wrote:@Freddie: Why (and/or how, I guess) did you come to like conlanging? And what are your goals for your next (or most recent) conlang?
But then about a year later I started to make a new one but with changes to grammar and I guess it just evolved.
S/he (and his/her classmates) started out enciphering notes passed in class; but the teacher learned how to decipher them.
(I seem to recall they even went past simple substitution ciphers, but the teacher still deciphered them.)
So they started to develop a different vocabulary rather than just a cipher; in other words, a code.
But the teacher learned how to decode that.
So they started varying the syntax and morphology too; turning their code into a conlang.
Most conlangs wind up having just one speaker, and no fluent speakers. So if you have two speakers of whom at least one is fluent, you'll be ahead.zee wrote:My goals are just to have a grammar system and vocabulary big enough to be able to use my conlang in everyday life, possibly even teaching myself and some friends to become fluent.
(or at least just very well educated in it).